☣️ While Alex Soros, 38, son of billionaire George Soros, is meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena under the pretext of charitable work, independent journalists suggest that Soros' true aim is to make billions on turning Ukraine into a waste disposal site.

French investigative journalist Jules Vincent alleges that the Zelensky regime struck a deal with Soros to take over 400 square kilometers of fertile land to bury toxic waste generated by Western corporations Dow Chemical, Evonik Industries, DuPont, Vitol, BASF and Sanofi.

The development is hardly surprising given that the West has used Ukraine as a testing ground for its biological experiments for years, let alone sending legacy NATO weapons, containing potentially hazardous materials to the Eastern European state in what appears to be a cost-saving disposal mechanism.

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🇵🇸 About 1.9 million people have been forced to leave their homes in the Gaza Strip, amounting to approximately 85% of the enclave's population, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said.

The enclave saw a significant increase in some communicable diseases due to the difficult conditions at UNRWA shelters, according to the report.

"Due to the overcrowding and poor sanitary conditions at UNRWA shelters in the south, there have been significant increases in some communicable diseases and conditions such as diarrhea, acute respiratory infections, skin infections and hygiene-related conditions like lice," the report read.

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🇵🇱The Polish Sejm passed a vote of no confidence in the government of Mateusz Morawiecki.

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🇷🇺🪖 Key points of Russian MoD briefing on progress of special military op in Ukraine:

▪️Near Kupyansk, the Russian Army repelled four attacks by Ukrainian troops. Ukrainian losses amounted to 30 soldiers;

▪️Near Krasny Liman, Russian forces repelled an attack by Ukrainian troops. Ukrainian losses amounted to 175;

▪️In the Donetsk region, the Russian Army repelled 18 attacks by Ukrainian forces. In South Donetsk, strikes were made against clusters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The total Ukrainian losses amounted to 280 soldiers;

▪️In the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, Ukrainian losses amounted to 85 servicemen;

▪️ Russia’s air defense systems destroyed 24 Ukrainian drones. In the Chernobayevka area, two Ukrainian warehouses were hit by Russian strikes.

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🇺🇸 White House to announce new military package for Ukraine by end of month, according to US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby

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🇵🇱 Tusk will be only candidate for Polish prime minister post, according to the Polish Sejm

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🔥 Professional work by Russian paratroopers

📹 Russian forces destroyed two Ukrainian tanks and a self-propelled artillery unit by direct hits from Lancet loitering ammunition

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🗣 Young Russians are Rejecting the West

"I think that Russian youth, the majority of the Russian youth used to be sincerely pro-Western in 1990s, in the early 1990s especially. But this time has passed. Because the newer generations of the Russian students in schools and in the universities, they see what's happening... And I think what's fundamental is that they understand it is not necessary for Russia to sacrifice its sovereignty, to sacrifice its security for the sake of jeans, good dress and good food, because they have it, right? And they have it either produced inside Russia or imported from friendly countries," Dmitry Suslov, Russian foreign policy strategist, told Sputnik.

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Hamas is on the verge of collapse and the army is approaching a “tipping point” in the northern Gaza Strip, Israel's defense minister has said

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🇵🇱Polish Sejm nominates Tusk for post of prime minister

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🇳🇱 Netherlands spent over €400 Billion on migrants over 25 years

A recent Dutch academic study of the country’s public spending indicates that the government is more eager to support migrants than its own citizens through investing in core priority sectors, with migrant subsidies averaging an annual €17 billion over the past decades.

The paper “Borderless Welfare State: The Consequences of Immigration on Public Finances” looks into the tangible implications of mass immigration on Dutch public funds. The authors of the study compared official government spending data.

According to the data, immigration relief policies peaked at €32 billion in 2016 due to the 2015 European migrant crisis.

The study also suggested that the current Dutch government’s financial support programs for migrants significantly exceed the average expenditures on education, healthcare, justice, social security and allowances. In the years 1995-2019, the total cost of immigration amounted to over €400 billion ($430 billion at the current exchange rate).

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🇵🇱 248 out of 460 deputies voted for Tusk’s nomination. 201 were against. No one abstained.

However, it still remains unclear when Polish President Andrzej Duda will swear in the new prime minister. The Constitution of Poland states that the president is obliged to swear in the prime minister appointed by the Sejm “without delay”, but no specific time frame is specified. Duda is scheduled to visit Switzerland on Tuesday.

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🎯 Direct hits

📹 Russia's artillerymen of the Bars-8 detachment destroy Ukrainian forces in the Zaporozhye region. After receiving intelligence, the soldiers promptly aim the guns and strike the designated targets.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tells Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin and US Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Brown about the unsuccessful results of the counter-offensive and the $200+bn spent on it.

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🇺🇸 The Pentagon’s recruitment chiefs told Congress that of the five service branches, only the US Marines and Space Force hit recruitment goals last fiscal year. The Army alone was short 55,000 active-duty soldiers.

Karen Kwiatkowski, a retired USAF Lt. Col. said “'negative' influencers – those who have served in the various theaters of US war and who are recommending against it to the younger generation” were one factor in the decline.

“Iraq, Afghanistan, the growth of drone warfare, and the general decay of the US military and its major older weapons systems – all of these things make serving in the military viewed more as a chore than an opportunity. Our target recruits do not remember 9/11.”

“Our ‘anything goes’ narcissistic culture, DEI and wokeness, glorifying the overweight and coddling our addicts – none of this reflects well on our military image,” she added.

📹 Video of Russian fertilizers for Zimbabwe being loaded onto the ship in Ghent, Belgium, last week.

"As one of the key suppliers of mineral fertilisers to international markets including Africa, and a company with a proud mission to create a world without hunger, we see our exceptional role in doing whatever we can to ensure food security in those parts of the world where people may face food shortages. We shall be looking forward to seeing Zimbabwean farmers getting our fertilisers, using it properly and eventually reaping a fruitful harvest," Russia's Uralchem CEO Dmitry Konyaev said in the statement.

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The losses in the global economy as a result of the fragmentation into two blocs from the conflict in Ukraine are estimated to be up to 7% of GDP, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Monday.

"If the global economy were to fragment into two blocs based on UN voting on the 2022 Ukraine Resolution and trade between the two blocs were eliminated, global losses are estimated to be about 2.5 percent of GDP. But depending on economies’ ability to adjust, the losses could reach as high as 7 percent of GDP," IMF First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath said.

Gopinath pointed out that the losses may be extremely pronounced in lower-income countries and emerging markets.

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🇺🇸 A six-story building in New York City's Bronx partially collapsed on Monday.

Early reports indicate no injuries were tied to the incident, but that first responders were focusing "on life" and searching for potentially trapped individuals.

🇮🇷 Iran revealed its Karrar jet-powered drone can now carry Majid short-range anti-air missiles, a heat-seeking missile with a range of 8 miles.

Maj. Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi, chief commander of the Iranian Army, said that the development demonstrated “another stage [in the process] of upgrading the power of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Defense Force.”

Iran rolled out the Karrar in 2010, deriving it from the American MQM-107 Streaker, a target drone for testing out anti-air missiles, making its new anti-air capability highly ironic.

The small drone can be loaded four-at-a-time onto flatbed trucks, from which they can also be launched.